An Extravaganza of the Lords of the Ocean

Shark Theatre

Seated in front of the large aquarium or watching from the ledge, experience the intensity of an encounter with the lord of the oceans!An opera of the sea, in which different species brush against one another, like blue runners, Anisotremus, sawfish and, of course, sharks: leopard, bull, nurse, bamboo, blacktip, whitetip reef, and grey reef.

To each their swim in this lyrical spectacle!

But the trio of bull sharks shares the title role, with their sleek two metres in length automatically drawing the eye in this vast aquarium holding 1.5 million litres of seawater.

No. of sharks caught/year : 100 millions

No. of species of shark : 500

Size of the whale shark or Rhinocodon Typus(largest species) : 18 m

There are more than 500 known species of shark living around the world today. They can be found in all of the world's oceans, be they tropical, temperate or polar (except in Antarctica). Depending on the species, they may inhabit anywhere from coastal shallows to abyssal plains up to 3,600 m deep (like the siki). Some of them also thrive in freshwater, including the Ganges shark and the Amazonian bull shark.

« A blue waveThe shark traversesThe ocean of the ages »

Yves Paccalet

Worshipped as gods by Pacific Islanders.

1/3 of oceanic sharks are now threatened with extinction.

400 million years of evolution.

Sensory organs that are particularly well suited to an aquatic environment.

The players

in this scene

This species is worthy of its name, with a maximum reported size of 2.50 m in length and weight of 4